( GENERAL ITEMS. Wisconsin grows . timber for mastB 150 feet long. Why are old maids odd? Because they are unmatched. If three miles mnke a league, how many make a conference? When Is a woman not a woman? When she Is a belle. Thkrk ftre fifteen hundred and sixty postofllccs in Iowa. A girls' school for type-setting has been opened in Vienna. Your genuine cockney is always fa mous for 'alf-and-'aforlsms. Canniral's epitaph: "Write me as one who loves his felloe-men." Wiien Is the weather most like a crock ery shop ? When It's muggy. It is said In Washington the almighty dollar is almlghtier than ever. In Wall street, whenabroker can't bull the market, he grins and bears it. California gold miners have taken to prospecting by the artesian method. TriE feast of Imagination Having no dinner, but reading a cookery book. Do not imagine an Individunlls going to spin a yarn because he knits his brow. Goon news for husbands Ladies wear their dresses longer than they used to do, Though fine feathers make fine birds, nne Diras uoiri always make nne leatih ers. In 18C2 Texas had but twenty-one con victs in her State Prison. In 1872 there were 044. Egos are said to be very scarce in Ohio, because the hens are in the habit of mis laying them. How do you know a house is often hungry? Because wo see the chimney swallow flies. It's a way with tailors to recommend things which are much worn when you want to buy new. " Man Is a mystery,'' said a young lady to her beaux. "Yes, dear," said he, "and girl is a misscry." A New IlAMPSHinE pedagogue says he has more pupils in his eye than any other man in the State. Good Dr. Dwight once said : " lie that makes a little child happy for one hour is a fellow-worker with God." More than 9,000,000 rf briar-wood and other wooden tobacco pipes arc made yearly in this country. Vermont where, as is well known, no liquor is sold, has 10,000 drunkards, 4,000 habitual "hard drinkers," and 20,000 young men just beginning to drink. Tub orange is a very hardy tree, will stand more rough treatment or neglect than any other fruit trees and is very long lived, bearing undiminished crops' for a century. Kansas elrls in great numbers are sisriv ing a pledge not to marry any man who uruiKS. lucre is a great temperance re vival going on hi nearly all of the West ern States. a Colorado woman's triumphs are thus set forth : Half an acre of tobacco, three corn fields, twenty-eight tnrkevs, and a church congregation in which she leads the choir. Bret Hakte's stepfather is dying and ruining iojhu again an uver ine country, Xo event since the formation of the Fed eral Constitution has aft'orded such an ar gument in favor of the resurrectionists. Old topers in England feel themselves to be patriots and bear a becoming port Eince the Earl of Derby has sai 1, speaking about the tax on liquors, " We have drunk ourselves out ot tlie Alabama Uimculty during the past year." 1 he gathering of the tribes has made little progress as yet, Palestine, according to the late census, having a Jewish popu lation oi only io..2U3 souls, ut tneses.uuu live in Jerusalem, 4.000 in Safet, 2,000 in Tiberias, and 400 In Hebron. The Delaware peach growers honestly admit that the prospect for a good crop this year is as favorable as last year, when an Immense crop was harvested. The " eyes of the world are on little Dela ware ;" so far as early peaches go, at any rate. The passage, bv both Houses of Con gress, of the bill authorizing the laving oi tiie new leiegrapn-caoie oeiwcen Cali fornia and Japan gives a kind of ollicial sanction to that enterprise, and will probably insure its success. This is the last link in the great electric chain, and. when it Is completed, we shall be able to put a girdle round, the earth in a shorter time than Puck. The Quebec Mercury is trying to shame us who have been complaining of the severity oi tne winter nere, with tne pretense that Quebecians are in love with a temperature of a daily average of 10 to 13 deg. below zero. It says that "with bright sunshine aim even a moderate wind, the city ma trons, beaux, and belles, never think of missing their daily promenade simnlv be cause the thermometer marks 10 deg. be- iow zero : aim we nave met the most dell cate women out and far from home when the mercury was 30 degrees below zero." Lice us go to jueoec in August. A Queer Phase of Insanity. AVhcn jurors, medical experts, and Journalists fall by the ears upon the ques tion of what tenor of action should be re garded as proof or disproof of insanity, the public are apt to view the whole dis cussion as a mere pretext for such verbal tumult as may either allow some criminal misdoer to evade moral responsibility for his crime, or cause a possible maniac to experience tne opposite late. In other words, there is no abiding popular faith in what pretend to be' scientific tests of mental health, the prevalent idea being that a man is either a raving lunatic, a puung idiot, or a sane, reasoning creature; his condition in any case as obvious to a child as to the wisest physician, and all pretense of learned doubt in the case the veriest sham. Common scenes in modern criminal trials go far to strengthen at least the vulgar clamor of this conclusion, but it undoubtedly owes its greatest ten acity to the common mind's slowness of credulity for what every common instinct esteems the most terrible of human afflic tions. Men shrink from crediting insanity in their own relatives or friends until it has attained a violence of demonstration leaving no further ground of earthly hope, and cannot be reconciled save in the vaguest general way to the theory that the mind, like the body, is subject to various diseases, and is only exceptionally in a condition of perfect health. Yet there is scarcely a town or even a neighborhood in the world without its "queer," eccen tric character,- whose tenor of action is such as to denote mental disease. In the many such cases finding daily record in public print there are plenty of parallels to Instances like the following taken from papers of recent date. At Middleburg, Pa., says the Post of that place, a man named Kilsworth died lately, after a local career of brief but startling eccentricity. He came thither from Hartford Conn., last spring,' attired in curiously patched garments and accompanied by a dog, and hired a room in which to print for himself an incoherent pamph'et entitled, "The Prospects of the End." From long con sideration of the passage in .Revelations ; "And he laid hold on Satan and bound him a thousand years, after which he must be loosed for a little season," he had become possessed of the idea that the season of diabolic rule had begun, and that men could avoid its influence only by abstain ing rigidly from all physical grossn ss. To maintain his own ethereality, while printing his pamphlet upon a hand-press which he lwd brought with him, he lived exclusively upon corn-meal and water, re fusing to touch bread or meat. Though very taciturn and lofty in his manner, he seemed to b8 actually insane on this sub ject only, but died a victim to the poor diet and hard labor imposed by his aolu-gjoii.-A Y. World, ' The Austrian Trlze Article. NOTE. The Kmnomr et An.trta. nfl7ra a. M-I. of 5,0(I0 for the bent newspaper editorial, lew than 8 column In length, on Austrian affairs, and the Democrat propose! to "go for It. ' ' i ho proper way to spell Austria is "Ostreieh." and from the host of our re collection it was settled by the Ostreiches nuuus me year buu, ana lias been pretty well populated with that family down to the present day. It was originally a Mar graviate, so called from the fact thst a strong-minded female of the name of Mar garet, usurped the breeches of her lord and master and struck out on her own hook and made more gravy and ate. They called the little farm upon which they lived after that More gravy ate until the Ostreiches came and the old couple broke up housekeeping. After this the Ostreiches became Hun gary, or, in other words, Hun-ga-ry be came the Ostreiches and they gobbled up the rock salt in Galicia, the copper and tin In Bohemia, Salzburg, Carinthia and Tyrol, and everything else they could lay their eyes on except Frederick the Great, i-Napoieon, general JUoltke ana King Wil liam. However, it will be our lot, as well as pleasure to record many of the splendid achievements of this warlike race of birds. It was their General Mack who so heroi cally chased with Napoleon all over Os trtich and finally compelled the great Em peror to accept an aruiy of 80,000 men on iu pension use at uim. this woncteriui piece of strategy, which threw upon Bona parte the care of so many prisoners of war, added to his embarrassment, and finally led to his downfall at Waterloo and banishment to St. Helena. And arain. howev r. look nt the peer less Iiaynau, who, after the surrender of mac patriotic Magyar, tfeneral uorgel, found himself fully competent to crush the Hungarian rebellion by executing. prisoners of war and sending their wives and little ones into banishment. And again, however, let us look, If we please, at the bold manner in which the Os treiches crossed the Ticino on the 20lh of April, 1500, and also the bold manner in which they crossed back again, bringing the Italians with them. The peculiar strategy employed by these people is subject to criticism on the part of some military Wn, but the Os treiches can afford to bear slander aftjr getting rid of Lombardy in such an easy manner as they did about the time herein mentioned. But we must again look, and not very far back cither, to 1SGG, to the brilliant war in which the Ostreiches engaged with Prussia. Other nations of ancient and modern times have had their wars their twenty years' wars, their seven years' wars and their three years' wars but it was left to the Ostreiches to finish up clean their war with Prussia in six weeks. A great many have not been able even to this diiy to understand how the Os treiches accomplished so much In so short a space of time, and it falls to us to ex plain it. In the first place, Field Mar shal Bcnedek was opposed to fighting off his own soil, and by dextrous manage ment of his forces succeeded in inveigling the enemy over the border. This was done so tliat the gallant Ostreiches could return to their homes very soon after a treaty of jnace was concluded. In this movement Field Marshal Bcnedek was entirely successful, so much so in fact that many Ostrdehes got home before peace was made, and'even before the Em peror of all the Ostreiches returned to Vienna. We have scarcely time to barely men tion that the Ostreiches are great lovers oflii.erty. and "go for" liberty first, last and all the time. Several years ago an Ostreieh Governor, whose name we be like was Gesler, was such a lover of these things that he placed his own can ou a liberty pole, and told a base, ignoble tyrant, whose name was tell, to lull down and worship it ; and when the tyrant re fused what did that liberty-loving Os treieh Governor do? But Tell, the ty rant, went nuo tne appie Dusiness. lheso are anout all the auairs that we know of bearing on Austria and the Os treiches, exept that they are known to stick their heads in the sand and whistle hi uncjneern, thinking that when the head is safe there is no danger in the rear, This is often exemplified in the desert where Ostreiches n.ost do dwell, and at Vienna, when the wicked disturb the peace of Europe and the peace of the Os treiches. This is all of this interesting article that will be written. It is less than a column in length, and will be sent to the Vienna Exposition, where it will be read by the Emperor Joseph. We have ardent hopes that it will win the S5.000 ; but the old he ustrelch may say, ".Not lor Joe." Ot iumwa (Iowa) Democrat. Transfusion of Blood. "The first trial, of transfusion of blood ever made" Hems says, "was made on a young man, fifteen or sixteen vears old This youth was attacked by a slow fever, for which the doctors had bled him twen ty times. He had become dull and sleenv. from the treatment, to the point of stu pidity. Some little warmth was felt dur ing the operation. Eight ounces of blood were taken lrom him, and arterial blood from the carotid of a lamb was immediate ly introduced by the same opening. He got up about ten o'clock, dined with ex cellent appetite, and went to sleep at four m tne aiternooii. lie Dleeil slightly lrom the noso." The operation having succeeded, Denis rriea a second, nut more from curiosity than necessity this time. The author re lates it himself as concisely as before. "The transfusion was effected upon a chair-porter, of vigorous constitution, forty-five years old. Ten ounces of blood were taken from him, and lamb's blood substituted. The man complained of no pain aunng the operation, ana was de lighted beyond measure with the new in vention, which seemed to him very insren- ious. When it was all over, he declared that he never felt better. Employment offering about noon, he carried a sedan as usual for the rest of the day. Next day ne Deggeu tnat no one Dut mmseit might be taken as a subject for new experiments." Three years before, transfusion of blood had Deeu practiced by Lower In England, but only on dogs. Denis repeated with these animals the experiments he had made on men. These were varied in the most interesting ways. He not only transfused the blood of one animal into the veins of another; but from the 8th to tlie 14 th of March, lu 1(507, he caused the same blood to pass into three different dogs successive'. Granting the correct ness of the views then prevalent, he then realized the famous Pythagorean fable of the transmigration of souls. The experi menter was also bent no making bis dis coveries generally Known, proposing to make trials in public, and. for this pur pose, he fixed for the first day of his lec tures "Saturday, the 10th of March, of tne same year, at two in tne afternoon, on the quay of the Augustins." History does not inform us whether Denis carried out his plans. Revue de Deux Mondes. Attracting Attention. It is a way some people have, and they know no happiness without it. Unless they can be a central point in a room, the persons to whom the largest amount of attention is given, unci who attract ail re gards, they are miserable; if they are sensitive as well as vain, they fret at Deing snubbed ; if only vain, they chafe at un deserved neglect. This comparative neglect thev cannot endure : their ego tism must have attention by fair means or foul ; they must do or say something to startle the surrounding world into eager observation, and 60 bring themselves to the front. They are not in the least de gree particular as to their method. When they cannot attract attention by supremacy In grace, in beauty, in wit, they manage to do so by exaggeration ; by outrageoi!snc,6s in dms, by audacity of speech, by Insolence, or eccentricity of bearinir: thev are satisfied if their bizar- rerit attracts ; and they are not ovcr-critl- cftl as to the quality ot attention it Dnngs them. They never see the covert satire ; never catch the subtle sneer; they are impervious to ridicule, deaf and blind to contempt. So long as they see all eyes turned on them, so long as they are in the center of a crowd gaping open-mouthed with undisguised astonishment, or viewing them with butter-bred compo sure through a forest of uplifted glasses, they are satisfied with life on the whole, and have no complaints to make against their lot. Lady's Magatine. SOCRATES SNOOKS. Mismn SornATKS Snooks, a lord of creation, A second time entered the marriaKe relation Xantippe Caloric accepted his hand, And thought him the happiest man in the land. Dut scarce had the honeymoon passed o'er his head, When, one morning, to Xantlppe, Socrates said: ' "I think, for a man In my standing in life. This house is too small, as 1 now have a wifc An iu eiu-lv n. noftnihlp. earnenter (Jarev Shall be sent lor to widen my house and my dairy." "Now, Socrates, dearest," Xantlppe replied, " I hate to hear everything vulgarly my'd; So, whenever yon speak ot your chattels again, Say, our cow-house, our barn-yard, our horse, aur niff-nen." "By your leave, Mrs. Snooks, I will say what I please Of my houses, my lands, my gardens, my trees," "Sav our," Xantippe exclaimed, in a rage. "I won't, Mrs. Snooks, though you ask it an BgCI" O woman I though only a part of man's rib, If the storv of Genesis don't tell a lib. Should vottr nanghty companion e'er quarrel witn you You are certain to prove the best man of the two In the followinir case it was certainlv truet for the lovely Xunlippe first pulled on her shoe, Ann laying miotic ner, an aides nt random, The adage was vcrilleil "A'iZ desperandum." Mister Socrates Snooks, after trvinsr in vain To Ward off the blows, which descended like rain. Concluding that valor's best part was discretion Crent under the bed like a terrilled Hessian. But the dauntless Xantippe, not one whit afraid; uonverrca me siege inio a oioc.aaue. At last, after reasoning the thing in bis pate. He concluded 'twas useless to strive against fate And so. like a tortoise, urotrudins: his head. Said: "My dear, may we come out from under our oear- "Hal ha!" she exclaimed, "Mr. Socrates Snooks, I perceive you agree to mv terms by your looks Now, Socrates, hear met from this happy hour. it you'll only oioy me, I'll never look sour." 'Tis said that next Sabbath, ere going to church He chanced foracleun pairof trowsers tosearch Having found them, he asked, with a few nerv- otis twitches. "yfy dear, mny we put on our new Sunday oreecnetr- English Women. As a rule, women in English society are remarkably natural negatively nat ural, I mean. English girls are partic ularly simple and unassuming, iney are innocent of all effort to impress or as tonish. As all womankind does and should do, thev make themselves as pret ty as they can ; but as to personal supe riorities, their educators do not lay enough stress upon such things to make them ambitious to excel in that wav. All young ladies are taught a certain mode of deportment, wnitn is excellent so tar as it goes. The chief precept of the code. whether inculcated openly or by the silent feeling of society, is that each young lady must do as the rest. That " voung English girl," who is the theme of the novelist and the magazine bards and artists, easily merits all the adulation she receives. Does not all the world know, is it not almost an Impertinence to say, that for dignity, modesty, proprie ty, sense, and a certain soft self-possession, she has hardly her equal anywhere? But the Brltitish maiden is taught that ambition in character is not a desirable thing. The naturalness and propriety which accompany this state of mind are not particularly admirable. It is very different from that propriety which is the result of elevation of character, of con clusions Intimately known and constantly practiced. People wb have activity and ambition are very apt to be affected, and very apt to unduly crave recognition. That we ask to be thought superior, shows at least that we prize superiority. When the young are left to their own growth, and no rstriotive tariff is put upon individuality, we may expect a little nonsense. Society will certainly do a great thing for the young if it teai'hes them the fully of a desire for recognition. But this society does not do, I fear. It merely Instructs them not to ask for re cognition, because by so doing they make a bad impression. It has done thein a still more doubtful service, if, In giving them this very good trait, it has also taught them to emphasize less strongly the superiorities of character and con duct. E. S. Racial in April Atlantic, A London philanthropist bequeathed half a million dollars to charities and a thypsand to bja fwnily, j USEFUL SUGGESTIONS. CHArrnr. IlAxnsAfter washing the hands, it is a very good practice to dust them with powdered starch, rubbing them gently. This keeps them fiomchap- PKRsriRixo Hands. Theoniy enective method of preventing excessive perspir ing is to mix club-moss in the water when washing them. Tney snouiu ue wusneu two or three time a day in tepid water, with the club-moss, which need only be used in the morning. nicvi-nin ftv Fins and Arri.KS. Have two ntinrta nf wnter boiling, split six figs. and cut two apples into six or eight slices each; boll the whole together twen ty minutes ; pour the liquid Into a basin to cool, and pass through a sieve, when it is ready for use. The figs and apples may be drained for eatlne with a little boiled rice. To .Tat-aw Old Tea-trays. First clean them thoroughly with soap and water and a little rotten-stone. I heft dry thom hv lvtnintr nnd PTnoRure at the fire. Now get some good copal varnish, mix It with soma hrnnro nowder. and BPPlV with a brush to the denuded parts. After which set the tray in on oven at a heat from 212 to 300 degrees until the varnish Is dry. Two coats will make it equal to new. Intimately mix the best nowdprerl rice with a little cold water, then gradually add boiling water until a proper consistence is acquireu, uk ing particularly careful to keep it well stirred all the time : lastly, it must be hoilpd for ont minute in a clean saucepan or earthen nlnkin. This gme is Deauii- fullv white, almost transparent, for which reason it is well adapted for fancy paper work, which requires a strong and color less cement. To Colob Black. For a full dress take two ounces of extract of logwood and the same of blue vitriol; dissolve the vitriol in sufficient soft water to cover the goods ; put them in wet In suite, simmer two nours: then wasn in three suus, Throw away the vitriol water and wash the kettle. Make the dye with the ex tract In nlentv of water : put In the goods and let them simmer. two nours longer, stirring very often to prevent spotting, ltinse well in cold water, and wash clean in suds. Plant Trees. Plant trees in the gar den, along the sidewalks and roads. A few trees in the bleat pasture will im prove the appearance of ranches, as well as serving in time for a grateful shade for the stock in the long, nor (lays oi tne dry season. It is a well-established fact that trees attract moisture, and everybody knows they add much to the attractive ness of a place. This is a most favorable time for the work; the ground is warm and moist, and trees set out with ordinary care are bound to grow. Therefore, plant trees plant fruit trees, and in a lew years you can raise your own fruit; plant trees for fuel, and your children that come after you will bless your thoughtfuiness; plant trees along- the highways, and in a few short years you can reap the reward of your Industry by a bonus from the board of supervisors ; plant also shade trees, and when the Infirmities of age came unon vou. vou can sit under your own vine and fig tree, conscious of having done your duty, with none to molest or make you airaiu. An old coffee drinker tells an ex change something about his beverage. S'.all I eive vou a ions-tried receipt? say for two persons? We will buy our coflee of a grocer that we can rely upon to give us pure Java, and fresh browned. We will only buy a small quantity not over two pounds so as to keep it fresh, have it ground, sent home, at.d immediately put into our tiglvtly closed canister. Now we are ready for some boiling water, which first use to scald out the coftee-pot we are to use In making it, and see that it is perfectly clean ; then dip Into a bowl two tablespoons full of your coflee from vour cani-ter: break anecg, ta"ke one- fourth of both yolk and white carefully with a teaspoon for, it the egg is put iu a cool place it will 6crve several times ; add the egg to the coffee, stir it, pouring in a little cold water, until you can beat it thoroughly ; then have three or four cups of water boiling in the coffee-pot. and stir your mixture of egg and coffee into it, setting it on where it Is hot but only let it boa up two minutes, then set it where It will keep hot, but not boil. and pour out half a cup of the coffee to clear the nozzle of the pot, and throw it In again, which will settle it; and when your breakfast is disnea up you win nave a Deverage nt to set Deiore a King i zv. r. Times. The Rattlesnake's Rattle. In the American Naturalist, Prof. Sam uel Aughey gives the results of his obser vations upon the use made of their rattles by the rattlesnake. It is the vulgar opin ion that the reptile sounds his rattle for the purpose of enticing birds, and some naturalists even are disposed to lind here a mimicry of the sound made by the so called locust, or cicada. Prof. Aughey does not undertake to explain all the pur poses served by the rattle, but helully agrees with Sir. F. V. Putnam in reject ing this mimetic theory. Does the rattle, then, serve any useful purpose? In reply to this question, the author tells us what he has himself observed. In July, 180'J, he was in Wayne County, Nebraska, and, as he was one day investigating the natu ral history of that district, he heard the familiar rattle of the snake. The sound was repeated at intervals, and proceeded from a rattlesnake that was calling its mate, which soon came in answer to the summons. Prof. Aughey had a similar experience the following year, and from these facts he is disposed to think that the purpose served by the rattle is to call the sexes together. Another purpose may be to paralyze its. victims with fright, and to inspire its nat ural enemies with terror. As an illustra tion of the use of the rattle for the former purpose, the author says that, as he fol lowed through the woods of Dakota County, Nebraska, a Baltimore oriole, he heard a rattle, and at once saw the bird as it were paralyzed with fear, anj ready to fall a prey to the serpent. The writer shot the rattlesnake. He adds that he once witnessed an attack of seven hogs on a rattlesnake. Soon after the battle open ed, the snake rattled, and three others came to nis aid. But the hogs were vic torious in a few minutes. Cheerful Predictions. Dr. R. T. TraliTTn the Philadelphia Star, is a verv cheerful prophet. He savs we are approaching the climax of a pes tilential period, lrom lHSO to ishs tne planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Nep tune will approach the earth nearer than they have been for eighteen hundred years. Whenever any one of the four have come near enough for us to feel its influence, pestilence, famine, and ex tremes of heat and cold have been found the result. Now, we are to have the in fluence of the four combined, and he pre dicts that In seven years from now all manner of evil which grows out of at mospheric changes will be upon us. To lessen this calamity, the world is urged to use the strictest sanitary measures, and bv health ani cleanliness counteract the effects of our unwelcome neighbors. The world is so much better able to care for it self than it was two or three hundred yeais ago, that by care we may avert much ot the danger. To the following classes he gives very cold comfort : " The dissipated, the glutton, the debauchee may calculate on being among the first victims. Young men who devitalize themselves by usiug tobacco, oung ladies who destroy one half of their breathing capacity by fashionable dress and light lacing, will never survive the perihelion of all the large planets of the solar system; and perhaps It will be best that tLiey should not," A rolson-Froof Bird. A correspondent of Scienet Gossip tells of an attempt to capture a specimen of tne scavenger-bird or "adjutant, oi inuia, In which he failed in a most unexpected way. On account of iw valuable services in clearing the streets of decaying and putrid matter, the bird Is held in high es teem by the natives, who take every pre caution to proteot it irom imrm. a ins prevented an open attack, and poison was the only alternative. Tho carcass of a partially-dissected bat was stuffed wl h enough arsenical paste and corrosive sub limate to kill twenty men, and the titbit thrown to a 1 ock ot the birds near oy One of them swallowed the whole of it at a gulp, and our student in comparative anatomy thought his game secure. But, thouch closelv watched for three hours, not the slightest sign of uneasiness was manifested, and at the end of this time the creature flew away with its fellows, ap parently as well as the best of them. The acmstomed haunts of the flock were af terward carefully searched, but no trace could be found of the dead body wanted ; and it was concluded that, unlike other gorman'ts, this one was not to do easily got at tnrougn nis Btcmacn. Consumption. For tho cure of this dis tressing disease thera has been no medicine yet discovered that can show more evidence of real merit than Allen's Lung flalsnm. This uncounted expectorant for curing con sumption, and nil diseases leading to it, such n ntl'nnt.inns of till) thWtnt. hltt nnlMsVclis- eases of the pulmonary organs, is Introduced to the suffering public after its merits for the cure of such diseases have been fully tested by the medienl faculty. The Balsam Is, con sequently, recommended by physicians who nave become acquainica wun na gieiu buu ces. , Blood Will Tell. Xn Imlv wishes to have it said that she looks nnlo and eiuncinted and. she need not, for she can have rosy cheeks, bright eyes and a healthy appearance by the occasional use of JIacuire's Cunduransro Bitters, the greatest blood puriiier extant ; also acts spe cially on the bowels, liver, kidneys nnd stom ach promoting a healthy circulation of the blood and effects the restoration of color and nnnonranrc in a natural way without re course to poisonous cosmetics. St. Louis Ulnhe. Send for Circular to ,T. ,V C. Maguire, Chem ists and DruirirUts. St. Louis, Mo ana see testimonials. On what a triflm? matter great results sometimes hang. Some merchants, while traveling, were overtaken by a storm, and kindled a tiro on the sands of the sen shore to warm themselves and cook some food They used for furl a plant they found In the neighborhood. xt morning they saw some shining particles nmong the ashes, and an examination snowed that tun asiics-oi tne plant combined with the sand had produced n hard, yet transparent, solid. This was the origin o"f the discovery of glass. So with Jiiiciu. The Hottentots had lor years useu the leaves of the plant in their rudo practice. As soon as the resident Kngli.-h and Dutch physicians found out its value, the know! edtre of its virtues soon spread over the en tire civilized world. l'AKKEit's Compound Fluid Extract Buchu nossesfes all the virtues of the plant, in a highly concentrated 1U1 III, COIIIUllieU II 11 Uil I. I SI, O IMI1JU1 IJVI- rics, Cubebs and Acetate of l'otassa, all united in such rare proportions as to obtain the proper medicinal effect of each, while neither too much predominates. Sold by all druggists, everywhere. Tfiroat Affections axp Hoarseness. All suffering from Iiritation of the Tliroai and Ifoarreness will be agreeably surprised at tho almost immediate relief afforded by the use of " Brown's Bronchial Troches" Lt'xa Complaints, Uhosciiitis, Asthma, &et., are speedily relieved, uiu! if taken in time, pi r nvancntlv cured by Dr. .Inyne's Expectorant. You wilf find it also n certain remedy for Coughs and Colds. Old lingering eases of Fever and Ague are Just tne Kinti to uiKe uaucnoer7erJs nun. a perman ent cure Is immediate. Every drujtgist keeps them The AinnHliere ofNfirlnar. Willi every change of season we have a change in the hygienic character of the air. In the spring 11 Is Impregnated, especially In low lying, wet dn trlcts, with menhltic vapors, which generate chills and fever, rheumatism. Indigestion, hillousness and diseases "f the ergans of respiration. It Is therefore particularly necessary at this time of the year to Invigorate and regulate the system so as to enaole It to repel the lnorbld Influences to which It Is more or less subjected. The stomach should be toned, the bowels freed from obstruo tlons, the blood purified, and the nerves braced and Btrengthened. This can be easily done, llos tetter's Stomach flitters are every where procure. ble ; and In the whole range of remedies and pre ventives prescribed by the faculty or recommend ed through the press, there Is not one that com bines in such an eminent degree great efficiency and perfect harmlessncss. It Is a positive antipole to malaria. Whoever takes it habitually may breathe the atmosphere of the worbt fever and ague locality without danger. Damp and chtl'lng winds make little orno Impression on the organl zatlon reinforced with this powerful vegetable ln vlgorant, and consequently It Is a good safeguard again! t asthma, coughs, colds, and other pulmo nary complaints. It is not recommended as a rem edy fi r this latter class of maladies, but simply as a means of strengthening the system against the xrial conditions and changes which so often pro d jce them. As a spring lnvlgorant and al'erative It will be found extremely beneficial to persons who are peculiarly sensitive to unhealthy and at mospheric Influences. The Science op Health for April opens with Popular Physiology, illustrated Medical Systems: The Scientific Era, Methods ol Cure; Natural food of Infants and Children Crime, Us Causes and Cures Health t'. Fashion illustrated; Consult your Thermometer; Season ableDUhes; General Debility; Health of Kami ers; The Man of Long Life; What Ituttlesnake are Good For. IrrTalks with Correspondents we have, Enlarged Liver; Dcaincss; Fever; Brain Food; Catarrh : Loss of Hair; Effects of Shaving, etc. A capital number, 20 cents, or t'2 for a year. Address S. It. Wells, Publisher, 889 Broadway, KewYork. Ocr Boys. " Three ; or Honor, Love and Hatred," by Jack C. Guibert, and Kate Henderson's Choice," by Will. II. Dennis, are the titles of two serial stories begnn in the March number of Our Boys, the former being accom panied by a striking Illustration. There are also several short stories, editorials, poems, sketches etc., all original and entertaining. A comic U lustration la given on last page. Subscription price $1 year. Send stamp for specimen giving premium list. Address Our Boys, Chicago. VMt and Oldeat Vfimi 1 Itfedlrlne. an- fonVt Liter lnciynrator a purely Vegetable i'a'hnrtic tilck Headache, nu jome lor uyepepBia, Hlllout Attacks, aud all derange- tn-nts of I.lver, btomach and Bowels Asu your Driicylet for It. Btwmr uf inutatwn YITHKN wrltlnx to advertisers please mention the If name ef this paper. UffiDIMMPiM ACC MALEorFEMAZE,JGu IVUnMltU bLfiwaiweek guaranteed. Respects, ble inuloyment,at home, daroreveninx ;o capital requir ed; full instructions and valuable package of goods sent tree by mail. Address, with six oenl return stamp, M. YOUNG CO., 16 OortuuidUst., New Tort WoEd0' Boy8&Clrl8. Te Ceat Juvenile Magazine, a splendid $1 00 Chromo and a Microscope that magnifies 10.000 times I Boys and girls wanted, to raise cluhs. Pleassut work aud splendid pay I Specimen, 8 cents. Agents' outfit. In cluding Chromo, 29 cent, bend at once. Bay where yousawthla. JottMB.Au.ru, Publisher, Chicago, 111. Mfl M E V Made rapidly with Stencil & Key Check III U II E I Outfits. Catalogues, samples and full par ticulars r ana. B. M. Epkmciu, 117 Iiauover;ot., Boston. r33 PHOTO'. S Superb Beauties, 28 cents, K. A. TR AIT, Stephentown, N. V . THE QBE AT FIEE AT BOSTON! A splendid colored Kuin-avlnK. size 13x18 laches, taken when the fire was at Us heltihl. will be sent post-paid ny return mail, and also Thr Homk Companion, a large aud interesting family paper ftr y-m , ii mr ao via. Auureaa auJib v Mil- rftMew i roy. w. n. Lumurittnl tVhlMkere. moHKtMrtitua, Kye brews, t:tu. Mai-tlua's World Ke.uowned Po made lorues Whiskers aud Moustathios to grow to the smoothest face without Injuring the skin. A sure remedy for baldneas. Bent free on receipt ol 11.00 and tl.'J'. LoHS MAKT1KA & CO. lis tilark Street. Chicago. IU. Agents Want ('lieapnl rirat-t'Iaue Hewing Hurhlnet! (inly s)io. (Don't pay fttaud (. lor a machine, wbeu yu can buy one tor $!), ilulng all the various same kiuds of work.) Ask for "THE CEVTitN. N1A' , warranted. Addreea Centennial1' Mew ing Machine Co.. 1.4 Chestnut Kl., f hiladelphia, AjfeuM Wauled, through, Uio tulttU Duties, Eplzooty Cold. Epizooty cougn. If negleoted, will result in CONSUMPTION! YOUR REMEDY 19 ALLEN'S LUNG BALSAM ! What the Doctor Say Atnoo Woolly, M. P., of Kpr lnnco Co.. In My! unm pxtfiipfvely In my practice, nnd I am Biitlfflcd Vn ttirnn vnnr nnnr. 1 hnvn nurd AllPti'A I.liiiff Hnl- 111 pre is no oeuer medicine lur lung aicenBCH iu uc. Ihrrc A. Inrnnt M. D., of Lottun Co., O., RAym Allen's Lung Bulara not only sulm rnplrtly, but Rives perfect sutln faction In every case within my knowl- Ctl(t3. imvill tltMIIIUVUVO 111 ll nn n"wiB W' v possesses vftluablc medicinal properties, I freely use It in my dally practice and with unbounded suc cess. As an expectorant, Ik Is most certainly fur ahead Oi any preparation i nave ever yet Known Nathaniel Harris, M. It 1 have no doubt! I will si I nu ion hi cininn. im . t ui hmuuuuiii , ' --t Buy a ; edlal spent for the cure of all diseases of the Throat, Bronchial Tubes and Lungs." " i nave no uourn it win soon nrconie ciiiichi rem it r, Lloyd, of Ohio, surgeon In the army d urine tho war, Irom exposure, contracted, consumption, ho says : ' 1 have no hesitancy In saying that It was by tiie uso of your Lung Balsam that 1 am now alive and enjoy 1 ii k nnmin. Fletcher, of Lexington Mo.f says: " T rocom- mend your Balsam In preference to any other medl cine for coughs, ann it gave satisfaction.' Prs. Wilson A Ward, physicians and druggists, write IllIll VrillirTIIIDi tVIIII.. Lung Balsam, and It sells ra nnnlllM Tan n . We purchased Allen's physicians, aa well as druggists, and take pleasure in rccommeodl ng a great remedy, such as we know this tn he.' a KAinnm. and it sells ranio r. v e nro nrartisuifc nr rnysiciana ao not recommena mrnicmw which has no merit, what they sny about AII0117 1iing Hnlnnin can be taken as a fact. Let all af- fHcted tout It at ouco( and be convinced of Its real U1CTUB, It Is harmless to the moat delicate f htld It contains no Opium In any fbrm. Directions accompany each bottle Call for Allen's Lang Balsam. J. N. HARRIS Sl CO.p Proprietors, CINCINNATI, OHIO. IW For Snle by nil Medicine Dealers 12,000,000 ACRES! Cheap Farms! the ohcapist laks in MARKa r, for Bale by the UN1QH PACIFIC RfttLROAD COMPANY In the Obhat Piatte Vallkt. 3,000,000 Acres in Central Nebraska Kow for nlc In tracts of forty acres nnd npwardi on .IVK AND TKN TfKARH CRKItlT AT U HBUHh HUAV VANCE INTEREST ItKQVIRKD. mli.d and healthful pi.tmatb, fertile boil, alt ahi'xdanoe of oooi water. Tins 11K8T MARKET IN THE WEST I The ercnt Mining regions of Wyoming, Colorado, l't..h and Ne viuln, being supplied by tho farmers in the Flattu V ALLEY. Soldiers Entitled to a Homestead of 160 Acres. TIIE BEST LOCATIONS FOB COLONIES. FREE HOMES FOH ALL I Millions of acres of choice Government Lands open for entry under with eood markets and all the conveniences of an old settled country. Free passes to purchasers of Railroad Land. Bcctlonal Mans, showing the Laud, also new edition of Descriptive Pampulkt with new Mafs Mailed Fbee Everywhere. Address, o. r. da vis, Land CommUtioner U. P. B. Jl Omaha, Neb. PORTABLE WSsaSoda Fountains. i5.'.r3"5T 40.83T.73anU100. ' O00B, DURABLE AND CHEAP! 61IIFFED HEADY FOH USE, Manufactured by J. W.CHAF MAN & CO., Madison. Intl. Cir Send for Circular. $500 IN PRIZES, rfk EXTRA EARLY VERMONT. Lj Uj Ten Days Earlier than Early Hose. ; fe Enorinoiinly lrodiicfiv and of W EXCELLENT 1 LA YOU. l per til n- A nmiiwla hv limit, luihtnnlil. Vnr 83.50. COMPTON'S (SURPRISE, 820 BiiHlieln to the Aero. A little later than Early liose. Equal Iu quality. S3 per pound, by mall, postpaid. 8300 will be awarded as PREMIUMS to those who produce the Largest Quail tlty from one pound. Descriptive Circu lars of the above, with lint of 800 vario ties of Potatoes free to all. Illuntrnted Seed Cntnloguc, 200 pages, with Colored Chreino, ascents. A New Tomato, the "ARLING TON." Early, solid and productive, Price, 250 per packet. B. K. BLISS & SONS. 23 Park Place, Hew York. Write for Larjie Illustrated Descriptive Prleo List to GREAT WESTERN PITTSBURGH.PA. Double Mnelt. Muzzle nnd lireeoh-LontlinelllfleR.fihot (iuiiR.lit'VolverR, I'lrttols.it e.,nf very klml, fur minor buis.utvcryluwpriccs.Guiib.fitoiOUil'iriioU.fl tuf .'5 EVFUiJRFKNS 6 to 1A Inches to b dollars m r 1U0 Send arc Transplanted, Send sramp for descrlp- tlv list to BARNES A CO., Young America, 111. MJTHEA - NECTAR nut'H TKA, with the irreen tea flavor. War ranted to suit all tjtstes. For salt evervwuere.And torsae whole sale only by the Oreat Atlantic racincieauo.iyi muion sc.ann At Church st.N. Y.P.O.box 6Sl Bend for Thea-Nectar circular DR. WHITTIER, en bt. ctariesbteeet. hoagtH engaged, anri most w(fui j.Iij.icUb, oC th ago. vvuauiMvivu v. uuiutinivi I lit:, utiil or WTllt. C a HsOO Prday! AjrentswantedlAnclamesof fl)w W VAJ workluarneonlo. of either sux. voune-nr old, make more money ut work for us lu their epuru moments or all the time than at anything elee. Tartio- ulars free. Address U. Stlnson i & to .Portland, Mu4ue, Sewing Machine IS THE BEST IN THE WORLD Agents Wanted. Bend for circular. Address, "DOMESTIC" BE WING MACHINE CO..N.T. MOTHERS! MOTHERS ! I MOTHERS!!! Don't full to procure LOW'S HOOTUIKQ MRS. WINS. SYRUP FOB. CHILDREN TEETHING. This valuable preparation has been nsed with NEV-EH-KAILING bt'CCKSS IN THOUSANDS OF CaSK8. It not only relieves the child from pain, but invig orates the stomach and bowels, corrects acidity, aud gives tone and energy to the whete system. It will uko instantly relieve Griping in the Bowels and Wind Colio. We believe it the BEST and SUREST REMEDY I! THE WOULD, In all cases of DY8ENTKIW AND BIAKIiHCEA IN CHILDKEN, whether arising from ieetlilug or any otl r cause. Depend upon It, mothers, It will give rest to your eelvcs, aud Belief and Health to Tour Isfanti. Be Sure and call for "MBS. WltfBXOWS B00THINS 8TBTJP, Having the facsimile of "CUKTIS FEKKiyS" Of the outside wrapper. (Vbold by druzciste throughout the world. VALUABLE FARM WEEDS AND BOOKS CalVEN AWAY. Thruti specimen cop I tit of tlie Amkbican Stuck Joi'RNal, contuluiug over 100 pHK"' of valuable reading uiu Iter hamUoiuelv Illus trated with KngrHViiiKB of 1- arm Buildiutf, Blooded block. Poultry, Dol'b, Jtlrdg. Ac, and a package of I'ltKbTEH Col nty Mammon Corn', Imported Vhit6 Oats and Alhike or Li c-kkn Clovkh, will ba sent FUKK to all Mho mi nd two Htanips for postage. Ad drib N. 1. Buy nu & Co., l-&rkeaburg, Chewier Co., ta. CANVASSING BOOKS KtNT fcttKK FOH Prof. FOWLER'S GREAT WORK On Manhood. Womanhood and their Ma tual Inter-relations; love, IU laws, Pow tt, eto. Aleuts are selllnfr from SO to 80 conies of this work a day, and we send a cauvas.lng book free to any bo. k aKeut. Aridrtsa. staling experience eo NATHJNAL PUBLISHING CO . , 8 1. iouisl BOOK of Medical Wonders au. IS.'iit free fur 2 atauipa. Address 1U, UO.WAlUCtacUiUMi.O, inn n Rill Tlii Lding Mim Houses of Si. Lou's i-ariiei in ma King pnrcnatrt in nt. Lioni Will d well to rnt thin ont ai a rrfrrenctt they are the leading houses In their vorlone lines i Dnsinese. 104 10 N. MAIN T., And Afrt's Home Cotton Mills, St. Lonii oni VBA1 EefriEenfi)ri,W(t CmIitiI CHEEVEE, BUECHARD & CO-1 608 North Fourth Street, :C5"ieuJ for Catalogue and Price Msl.t3 Vkern, an W: Tllii.lri STEBER & CO MARKET STHF.ET, BEDS (Kecemir nnne nrm 01 n. .. nans a vo.j U'holcstl Jcalcva in (BOOTS & SHOES,) L.i & k,6 Washington Ave. iposlte S, t.1 V i, :.&rn'...w.tnM Qt ouis, Mo. II. M13NOWN, Alio Pronr'r of Grmt Faflflx Spire and i Coffee Mllln, 818 Broadway, St. Louis, Mo P. Gi-EASON &CO., AWUl IMPLEMENTS Vole ftp AT.T, K1DS. AgenU for American Spring WaRons. No 1 lain St., St.Louu. Send for Catalogue. SODA WATER APPARATUS! Send for Illustrated rnfniopuc.. Bottler,' Outfit and Supplies at Ea.tcra Pitrei. ,B. R. LIPPINCOTT, Western Depot! V. W. cor. 8th & St. Charles Sts., St. Louis Dolnaay Win Co.) Dealers in native ana roreign wine. a II" . 1 Vin Delmay, f SWF.F.T atieCUAUSS W" Amour, -J W J BVlwiUis-glJ Vin Boquet'. ( FLAVOR: No. 8n Ilroadway, St. Louis. Mo. 1 LUDLOW, SAYL0R & CO .WIRE SWIRE GOODS 219 & 221 Market Street, XSuB. FLOI Com: BO FLOUR, GRAIN and GENERAL Commission Merchants BOO & SOI NORTH LEVEE. KSTAULIXMKI) 1.1 YKAUK. J. V- MelNTYl'fK, I'iiIiIImImt. Rookftpller V Ntitiloner, No. 4 SOITH FIKTII MitKKT, ST. 1.0 1 IS. 'Jatalopues o:i application Correspondence in vited. Theological and biunluy Srhoi 1 I AH KLIIITE1)PT,W vouM not lie without it for t(.'ii limi'S its sub BciM'li"H irtc. If ten a :r Vaii.k. Ht unify .1 miction, Kultalo Co., Nchrnska. Tin iihovu irt a I'alr Piiinnl. (.I'huinlri.'ds ot l-t- lvet'lveil hv tho K r. T.nriri Mutr,.M) Faumi-.h. tin t'li'. anc U iiml iur.iHfroiiicst Mrrti'uliiii-:.! mid t'aiullv tmnml in thN uouutrv; Hjrlit papi'S. fortv miliums, 'll'IV M:TM A 1 AH.CIiOis often tor $1. Twu wimple copies of OMViTcnt dateel'or thivu rent stamp. It tKj:ivinKp'i-.Vet sat!sf?t'tioiirvoryvluTi'. Trv It. Address liOWilAN A MAT'i IIKWS, 'ult triers. vi- nt imra nrrr rr. at. jouib, ma. f tKstabl.sheil 1 S3 fU lirri sT U f. nnipi-iipuo Manufacturers of Pawn. BUPEUIOU TO ALL. O'lilKRS. EVERY HAW WA UK ANTED ;b711ao Riilflnn an4 MaiUlnAsi, CS-LIUERAL DISCOUKTSJ gTrice Hsu aud Circulars free. ft WELCSl & GRIFFITHS, BnHlon, ninsn., and Detroit, Mich. liSH the KelsiirgeBSnSh Lock and Supnort to FASTEN YDUil WINDOWS ! No unrint to break. ntt cuttlncof nathi cticap, , tlurn. ble, very easily anpirnl holds sash at any v Hnnlrnl' holds eiis h at anv nliif fired, aud a self fastener when thenash tHdown. Semi stamp for circular Circular and six copper-bronzed meKS Fein io any auureps in me i . iv. postpaid, oh re ceipt of 50c. Liberal Inducements to the trade. A (runts wanted. Address Ticistnper basil Luck Co.. O. 413 Market meet, JIarrisiuirjr, ra IKor Illustration of this cheapest and liect lock, sea Wood'blJuusetoklJfayazt.icy.l'.Ihihpihdtnt.&Q.Mii FOUTZ'3 CELEBRATED Horse and Cattle Powders. This preparation, lonrand favora bly known, will thoroughly Fe-lnvl. orate hroken down and low-spirited horses, liy strengthening and eteans inir the stomaeh and li.testlnes. it iRU&oro preventive of ail dis ases Ineldenf to tills animal, such as MJJitl i'EVUf. til.AMJtltb, YFI.I.OW V ATr.lt, HEAV'S, (orollS.DIBTKMl'tn.KEVKns, KorNDK.lt, l.OSS OK AP"K T1TE, AND VITAL KSTiUfiY, Ae. Its use Improves the wind, inereases the appetite Ives a , smooth and plossy skin and trans- lorms tno miserunio Baeieiou uiiu ailne-looklng aud spirueu nurse. To keepers of Cuwa litis prepar ation Is luvulnalile. It, is a sura preventive UKalnet Rinderpest, Hollow Horn, etc. It has hcen proven by aetiuil experiment to increase the quantity ofutllk and cream twenty per cent. . aud niako the butter llrui and sweet. In lat ti.itinir rattle. U irlves them all an petite, loosaus their hide, and makes them thriva much taster. In all diseases of swine, such as Coughs, tlccr in tne i.uoks. l.lvi r, sc.. mis arti cle acts aa a speeltlc. lly putting iroL'i one-half a paper to a paper. In a Parrel ot swlU Hie above uls. " jases will be eradlcatedorentirely prevented. It'Kiven lu time, a cer tain preventive aud cure lor the iloK Cholera. DAYID E. F0UTZ, Proprietor, BALTIMORE, Hid, KABOTKAU A CO., 711 X. Fifth Street, AgenU for bl, I.onls. . . . For sale by llrupfrlsts and Storekeepers throuirl. out the United Stales. Cauudasaudboulh America. $lV7 flfs EACH WEEK-AGENTS WANT. Q I .)t KI). lluslness legitimate. Particu lar, free. J. WORTH, St. Louis, Mo., Box 2161. Oromo-SIie, 9 by 12 Uobei, worth i0, kJrl to every nur. ohaserof Dr. Foote'i wonderful woilc.W PLAIN HOME TALK. No competition the most vaxino Oombln tlon ever offered. A genu are meeting with unparalleled aucoeii. Book! and Crotnoa rovy and delivered together. Send J.0Q for Proinectm and Oromo ntiuin a mwki nrm Antnt early to ccure territory. Fall table of Content and Term Chicago, fcvary Cromo oomptetelr mounted. $10 tojgg per day. Agents wanted eve- rvwherA. PKrrtonl.p. f... . BLA1K ft CO., Bt. Louis. Ho. GREATEST CURIOSITY the won. r.efni ,,. , , . I 1 sndinstructlve.10,001) selling weekly. .Price S6 cents. No humbug. Address GEOltGE A.HKAKD & CO., Boston, Mass. Keliable Komedy la Umea- I imoi tue Aianeysana uri- . Uarv Or can h. PneDhaiin. tmiu, Dropsy, Gravel, Boils. Bkin Diaeasea, Colds, it has DO HUDerior. Tnr.r.a m tV. f eyateia ner Asue. Phy loiariB prescruo it, 8 old REWARD For ny case of Blind, Bleeditiff, Ticlilni? or Ulc rated fileAiiat Ie T-ixe't Pi lb Remedy fulls to cure. It U prepared ex pressly to euro Uio Piles, and iiothintrJlse. Sold by U UrufiiioLa. Fnco iS& Established 25Q5 YEARS. Jones Coa'l and Telegraph Collego. FIFTH AND OLIVB BTBKET9, BT. LOrtB. circular. (Oftrm&a sod KDgllab, aad SpMlmea. of r.aaiaa. Btpa m.ik-d FHKR. Wrltoforoae. KO VACiTlOK. JO.'BAI JONFB, Pn.ldrnl. iuaH W. Jon.sSOK. Mansflai Priaclpal. K rkrtrw aqknts WANTKO. 'amples sent II. Two new articles. salalilA ll,UUU free by mall. as Hour. A.lUre.s N. Li. WtilTK, Newark, N.J Employment ; t luu per week ; agents A others to sell a new article; iudlsk.ensahle to merch's & nianl'rs. A tlrs wltli stamp K U.Umlih A t o. Hi Liberty at.N.T A.N.K., 8.L. It O-306 DR. WHITTIER, 8 sr65TOMREE,i C.a.u.sauMiMtHUiu.u.'" CkUecvriu, 3 1000
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